Here’s a little teaser for Ex Libris in the form of a single-page “comic-within-a-comic” followed by some notes about the circuitous route this comic took before ending up in my book
La Cigüeña: notes on a comic
A behind-the-scenes look at my comic, La Cigüeña (2011).
99 More Potential Exercises in Style
What if I were to draw 99 more exercises in style? I’m not planning to, but here’s a list of potential (and in some cases improbable if not impossible) candidates for a hypothetical second batch.
99 Ways to Read a Book
Check out my new interview about books and reading at The Reading Lists.
Five Exercises in Style: a Student Video Project
Five short videos from Spain inspired by my 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style.
Teaching with Exercises in Style: a screencast lecture
A short and entertaining screencast of a talk I gave recently to show off some student work from a 4-day workshop based on the principle of “exercises in style.”
Lost on Fantasy Island (Strapazin 112)
A strip of mine was just published in the Swiss comics magazine Strapazin.
Bridge: a “24+7 hour comic”
At the end of January I hosted and participated in the seventh annual 24-hour Comics Day event at la maison des auteurs. I didn’t finish the whole comic in 24 hours—I only got to page 16—so I devoted another seven hour day to finishing the remaining eight pages. You can learn a bit about it […]
4 x 4: the OubapoShow post
Recently my friends in Oubapo and some invited guests put on the first ever OubapoShow at the Cité Internationale de la Bande Dessinée et de L’Image in Angoulême (oh, and up the hill there was also some kind of comics convention going on?). We all did performances, slideshows, and live-drawing events. In my case, I […]
Oubapo in Translation
I translated three short comics by members of Oubapo and wrote an introduction to the group and its principles for the International Graphic Novels issue of the literary translation magazine Words Without Borders.